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Ken Burns' "Jackie Robinson" Premieres April 11 on PBS
FFC Jana Monji previews "Jackie Robinson," the new PBS documentary special from Ken Burns.
FFC Jana Monji previews "Jackie Robinson," the new PBS documentary special from Ken Burns.
As part of our partnership with Columbia Links and the Chicago Urban League, student Solomon Davis reviews "The Central Park Five".
As part of our partnership with Columbia Links and the Chicago Urban League, student Tonyisha Harris reviews "The Central Park Five".
As part of our partnership with Columbia Links and the Chicago Urban League, student Briana A. Williams reviews "The Central Park Five".
Here is a collection of a dozen of the best documentaries I saw in 2012. It's not a "best of the year" list. Just some good memories of these films.I will not burden you again with another complaint about lists. More than ever, I despise them because they shift focus away from a film and toward a list. When I recently caught up with "Django Unchained," for example, I gave it four stars. The comments section was overrun with readers asking if that meant it was now on my Top Ten list. One reader insisted on knowing which title it replaced. Although the piece was some 2,000 words long, another reader insisted he still wanted to see "my official review."
Marie writes: The ever intrepid Sandy Khan shared the following item with the Newsletter and for which I am extremely glad, as it's awesome..."Earlier this year, the Guggenheim Museum put online 65 modern art books, giving you free access to books introducing the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, and Kandinsky. Now, just a few short months later, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has launched MetPublications, a portal that will "eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals" published by the Met since 1870."
